BPA-free Receipts

Starting next month, you will be able to tell whether the receipt you’ve been handed is BPA-free by checking for red marks on the back. Red marks = BPA-free.

This move is courtesy of Appleton, the largest thermal paper maker and only manufacturer of BPA-free receipts in the U.S. It is beginning to add red fibers to its paper this month and expects to have them in 100% of the paper by March 2011.

Come then, if you do not see red marks on the receipts from your supermarket, bank ATM, gas station, etc., speak to the managers at these businesses and suggest a switch. If you personally work the register in a store, speak to your boss. Your exposure is very high. Meanwhile, wear gloves if possible.

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A green living columnist for environmental organizations in her spare time, Sheryl Eisenberg wrote This Green Life for NRDC from 2004-2014 and previously wrote Greentips for the Union of Concerned Scientists. In her "real" life, she designs websites with her firm Mixit Creative for environmental groups and other non-profits and small businesses.